The goal of the SAMHSA ADS Center is to enhance social acceptance and inclusion by ensuring that people with mental health problems and substance use disorders can live full, productive lives within communities without fear of prejudice and discrimination.

Recovery Month promotes the societal benefits of prevention, treatment, and recovery for mental and substance use disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment and service providers, and promotes the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. Recovery Month spreads the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover.